Word: mushroomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their inert stylishness, and they exude a creepy sense of the disconnectedness of things. He has developed a way, as in Miner, 1984, of dissolving conventional images of conflict (the slumped miner of the title is a '30s icon of labor, as the outlines of Frank Lloyd Wright's mushroom columns from the S.C. Johnson building are, literally, "capital") and then working them back in layers of visual-verbal puns and allusions. Thus the brutally splintered cafe tabletops anchored to the painting's surface work both as echoes of the capitals and as suggestions (presented like comic- strip balloons...
...mesh the emblem with the major illustrations of the layout. One of his favorites was a drawing of a finger poised over a red button, which was used in a 1982 cover story about fears of nuclear war. The impact was enhanced by a large facing photograph of a mushroom cloud. "It is often helpful to get a play between two things," says Holmes. "When TIME did a September 1983 cover on the downed Korean airliner, we used the Communist hammer-and-sickle symbol, with the plane as the hammer being cut by the sickle. It was both accusatory...
From one window Alexander could see the 18th century Moscow Post Office, a structure that he invests with churning life. In a paean to the Mushroom Market on the banks of the Moscow River, the author offers pungent and densely textured scenes of ancient commerce, which have been fluently rendered by his niece, Ann Pasternak Slater. "Everything was primitively displayed in open barrels, the frozen carcasses of great fish simply laid straight on the snow," he writes. "Pickled, soused, and salted products stood in ranks . . . vats of bilberry, cranberry, cloudberry...
...practiced ease, Deck Hand Basil Kuvshinikov, whose name and accent both attest to his origins in the Russian city of Smolensk, steps ashore and walks beside the slowly moving boat, a loop of its thick forward hawser over his shoulder. As he slips the loop over one of the mushroom-shaped bollards onshore, another deck hand, a stocky, bearded man named Tim Burke, tightens the line, snubbing the Peckinpaugh to the side of the lock...
Assuming the critical reports do not have the calamitous effect of generating sentiment for still greater defense funds--to bolster conventional, along with nuclear forces--concern over military readiness could help stem the growth of the nuclear aresenal. The danger is that greater "preparedness" could mushroom into a dangerous build-up in conventional forces, but in general, any break on the nuclear effort would be a welcome change...